By Dawns Early Light is without a doubt one of the best re-enactments of WWIII ever made. The film is a very tense TV movie with a great all star cast.
When a fanatical terrorist group opposed to the friendly U.S./Soviet relations explodes a nuclear missle over a Russian city, it begins a chain reaction of accusations and actions that begin the ground work of WWIII. As the clock ticks towards nuclear annihilation.
Most of the movie centres around the crew of a scrambled B52 Bomber on it's mission to deliver is nuclear payload, as the nightmare unfold the pressures on the crew reaches boiling point, as the fate of there families start to dawn on them and cracks in there emotions start to open. Not to mention the fact that everybody thinks the U.S president is dead and the newly swarn in president is way out of his depth on Air Force One, and is torn between launching a full grand tour attack, or to pause and try to get the correct lines of communication back up with the… more »

By Dawns Early Light is without a doubt one of the best re-enactments of WWIII ever made. The film is a very tense TV movie with a great all star cast.
When a fanatical terrorist group opposed to the friendly U.S./Soviet relations explodes a nuclear missle over a Russian city, it begins a chain reaction of accusations and actions that begin the ground work of WWIII. As the clock ticks towards nuclear annihilation.
Most of the movie centres around the crew of a scrambled B52 Bomber on it's mission to deliver is nuclear payload, as the nightmare unfold the pressures on the crew reaches boiling point, as the fate of there families start to dawn on them and cracks in there emotions start to open. Not to mention the fact that everybody thinks the U.S president is dead and the newly swarn in president is way out of his depth on Air Force One, and is torn between launching a full grand tour attack, or to pause and try to get the correct lines of communication back up with the Russian President, who could or could not be bluffing.
This is an exceptional TV movie, and anybody who saw the terrible The Day After, can rest Assured that this time the Americans got it right and made a classic unrelenting dramatic movie about the un-thinkable.
A must buy!